In 2020, the location-based service market is a $1.3 trillion industry.*

In 2020, use of geo-location data, including GPS, generates $500 billion in consumer value.**

Geographer jobs grow 35 percent per annum, while those of cartographers and photogrammetrists grow 22 percent between 2010 and 2020.***

Location becomes an integral dimension of data, allowing information patterns and decisions to be viewed through the lens of place. Since entities on earth can be tagged by location, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) finds varied applications ranging from movement of weather patterns to traffic management in crowded cities to location-based services to forming the backbone for the Internet of Things. The use of GIS in the field of medicine and infrastructure planning grows as governments open up their GIS databases for public use.